Improvement in harvesters



Direct-Ilhta'c-Auaazmenf.@y Mowers 8c Rap'ersi.

J. Winters nooo TENTED DEC 101867 Wig@ www1? W UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES WINTERS AND CHARLES C. GAPEN, OF LACON, ILLINOIS.

IM PROVEM ENT IN HARVESTERS.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 71,937, 'dated December 10, 1867.

Be it` known that we, JAMES WINTERS and CHARLES G. GAPEN, both of the city of Lacon, in the county of Marshall and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful device called a Direct-Draft Attachment for Reaping and Mowin g Machines; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a view of a tongue having our invention applied thereto; and Fig. 2 represents the top view ofthe frame of a reaper or mower, showing our invention applied to the tongue, so as to obtain the direct draft.

A represents the skeleton clevis-frame; B, brace passing back and bolting to tongue back of neck-yoke 5 C, neck-yoke; D, tongue to reaper or mower E, clevis attaching leadhorse to skeleton-frame; and, in the drawings, F F F F, position of horses Gr G, driving or supporting wheels ofreaper or mower; E, sickle.

The object of our invention is to prevent, in

with the frame adjustable, as heretofore, to

counteract the side draft, we attach to the front end of the tongue a skeleton iron or i wood frame, A, with the ferrule passing over the end of the tongue, and brace B bolted to the tongue D and below neck-yoke C, so as to form with the tongue D, on the side thereof next to the cutting apparatus, a figure resembling aright-an gled triangle. To the inner end of this skeleton-frame is attached an adjustable elevis, E. The wheel-horses are attached to the tongue in the ordinary way; but the lead-horses are attached to the clevis at the inner angle of the right-angled triangle, so that while the line of draft of the wheelhorses will be in the line of the tongue, and equidistant between the supporting-wheels, the

line of draftof the lead-horses, changed and f regulated by means of holes in the upper or short side of the triangle for moving the clevis, will be between the divider end of the reaper or mower and the tongue, and so adjusted as to equalize the draft of the machine by confor the purpose herein described and repre` sented.

JAMES WINTERS. CHARLES G, GAPEN. Witnesses:

J AMES ST. CLAIR BoAL, J oEL J oNEs. 

